I've found different posts on this, but nothing that really seems to help (novice me) really fix the problem. So, I'm hoping that this post will accomplish that task AND provide others with the ability to self-resolve a similar issue.
I've got a FreeNAS system that has been working for quite some time now. That is great. However, I am now getting checksum errors on the FreeNAS boot disk, as the title indicates. My system has a single USB stick as its boot disk. This has me somewhat chuckling and somewhat terrified. There is no redundancy with a single stick, of course. I'm not sure how much 'custom configuration' information is written to that device, which is where I start to become terrified.
All of this gets me to the simple question of "how do I fix this problem" in simple, easy to understand steps. My system is presently running so I have the luxury of (probably) being able to extract whatever information will be needed. I am assuming, of course, that I need to procure a new USB stick (or perhaps put an actual drive in the unit for the boot drive.... maybe this USB stick stuff is a bad idea?). Beyond that, I would really appreciate brain dead steps on bringing a new stick (or drive) that replicates the old one.
At my disposal I have a Mac (10.15.3... and probably some older ones too), several Win10 and WinXP machines, Linux, etc. The FreeNAS itself is a bit out of date, running FreeNAS-11.1-U7. If there is any additional information that is required, or useful, just let me know and I'll be happy to provide it.
Thank you again for any help you can provide. Please be very specific on commands that I need to execute. Although I'm very computer literate, I am not FreeNAS literate at all. Nor am I an IT administration person familiar with Linux administration. I program for a living, and I spend a lot of time in Linux, but very little in the configuration and/or lower level modifications of the system
Thanks!
Alan
I've got a FreeNAS system that has been working for quite some time now. That is great. However, I am now getting checksum errors on the FreeNAS boot disk, as the title indicates. My system has a single USB stick as its boot disk. This has me somewhat chuckling and somewhat terrified. There is no redundancy with a single stick, of course. I'm not sure how much 'custom configuration' information is written to that device, which is where I start to become terrified.
All of this gets me to the simple question of "how do I fix this problem" in simple, easy to understand steps. My system is presently running so I have the luxury of (probably) being able to extract whatever information will be needed. I am assuming, of course, that I need to procure a new USB stick (or perhaps put an actual drive in the unit for the boot drive.... maybe this USB stick stuff is a bad idea?). Beyond that, I would really appreciate brain dead steps on bringing a new stick (or drive) that replicates the old one.
At my disposal I have a Mac (10.15.3... and probably some older ones too), several Win10 and WinXP machines, Linux, etc. The FreeNAS itself is a bit out of date, running FreeNAS-11.1-U7. If there is any additional information that is required, or useful, just let me know and I'll be happy to provide it.
Thank you again for any help you can provide. Please be very specific on commands that I need to execute. Although I'm very computer literate, I am not FreeNAS literate at all. Nor am I an IT administration person familiar with Linux administration. I program for a living, and I spend a lot of time in Linux, but very little in the configuration and/or lower level modifications of the system
Thanks!
Alan